We live in
a period of history in which intensifying gender, race and religious
wars are leading to political disputes over nationalism versus globalism and threatening Western liberty with a return to primitive tribalism.
Each side in the conflict, from conservatives and libertarians on the
right, to liberals on the left, has its own high ideals and vision
for the “social good” and the appropriate structure for our
cultural, social and political institutions, which are deemed morally
fit in accordance with each ethical view. Moral psychologist Jonathan
Haidt terms this as “morality binds and blinds”, binding us
together into social groups and blinding us from appreciating the
moral values that guide the opposite side.

Both on
the right and the left, we tend to think of ourselves as rational and
moral beings, motivated by extensive ideological systems that are
deeply rooted in our common shared valued, history and philosophical
traditions. However, in recent years, with the rise of neuroscience
and a much improved understanding of how hormones shape our brains, a
new scientific synthesis is emerging and uncovering the biological
and Freudian psychological factors that mold our minds, frame our
moral matrices, and operate as a secret driving force behind our
social and cultural transformative change, or evolution.

Psychology
professor Jordan Peterson discusses human dominance hierarchies and
how they shape our ideologies in his theory of archetypes, a
collectively-inherited unconscious idea, or image that is universally
present in individual psyches, as in Jungian psychology. These
archetypal or mythical elements unconsciously shape the mindset of
each member of our social groups. For instance, the ideal of God the
Father as the ultimate patriarch, taking care of his
children—mankind—in the philosophy of ancient Hebrew Scripture,
suggests that it is the peak-testosterone point in the evolution of
our Western Judeo-Christian civilization.Likewise, art historian and self-described lesbian, transgender and
dissident feminist, Camille Paglia captures the essence of sex in
structuring the personality through human history in her masterpiece,
Sexual Personae:

Sex
is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and
good intentions fall to primitive urges. I call it an Intersection.

Judaism,
Christianity’s parent sect, is the most powerful of protests
against nature. The Old Testament asserts that a father god made
nature and that the differentiation into objects and gender was after
the fact of his maleness.

The
transgender movement is only one symptom of a generational trend of
testosterone decline that results in the fall of gender
differentiation. In my recent book, The
Testosterone Hypothesis, I suggest that human
cultures go through life-cycles that are controlled and regulated by
growth hormones, primarily testosterone. In the “default”
condition of our human state, we are all born female; it is the
release of the hormone testosterone in utero
that determines the gender of the child, whether it will assume
masculine characteristics or remain feminine. Given its primacy in
human development, testosterone actually drives the sexual
organization of our culture and even our ideas and social
organization. It is a dominance hormone that shapes our social
dominance hierarchies in one of two general directions: either a
patriarchal, individualistic culture, elevating family values,
independence and personal responsibility and led by a competitive,
masculine vision for the “social good,” or a feminist, socialist
form of big government paternalism in a transgendered, egalitarian
and collectivist society.

Another
symptom of testosterone collapse is the fall of Western male
dominance and Western hegemony in the global pecking order of the
nations, which author Howard Bloom discusses in his book The
Lucifer Principle. The barbarians, in the form of
the Dark Age religion of Islam, are standing at the gate as the West
is becoming effeminate, weak and impotent. As Western male dominance
collapses, and because nature does not exist in a vacuum, feminists
and socialists embrace a posture of surrender, inviting the Islamic
jihadists to conquer and rape our culture into submission.

In regard
to how testosterone shapes our brain, professor of developmental
psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, Simon Barron-Cohen,
has formulated the empathizing–systemizing (E–S) theory,
classifying people along two opposing dimensions: empathizing (E) and
systemizing (S). According to Barron-Cohen, this theory is a better
predictor of who chooses Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) subjects than gender alone is. The theory has been
further developed into the Extreme Male Brain (EMB) theory, which
explains autism and Asperger syndrome as associated with low empathy
and excess systemizing.

In the
Dopaminergic Mind, neuroscientist Fred H.
Previc writes about the personality characteristics of the male brain
that led to the hyper masculine philosophy of the Hebrew Bible, in
which man is commanded to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth” (Genesis 1:28):

6.1
The transition to the dopaminergic society: (around 1,500 BCE)

The
dramatic transformation of human existence into a much more
competitive, inegalitarian, and ruthlessly technological one has been
termed “The Fall” by Taylor (2005), and it may be the basis for
the biblical story of Adam and Eve. It has also been associated with
a major change in human consciousness. Humans before this era viewed
themselves as surrounded by and controlled and even aided by various
gods; indeed, what might be today considered pathological symptoms
such ashallucinations
and delusions of being controlled (the “alien control” syndrome)
may actually have been quite common and tolerated during this time.
The new consciousness, however, posited humans as independent,
self-conscious agents, and the gods that they had once placed such
faith in but who failed to prevent several centuries of natural
catastrophes became more distant and less involved in controlling
their thoughts and actions. Many theorists have argued that this era
represents the beginning of left-hemispheric dominance, inner
thoughts, ego explosion, masculine aggression, otherworldliness, a
linear temporal perspective, and a technological mindset. It is
certainly true that these features are more characteristic of the
left hemisphere, but there is no actual evidence that our anatomical
or functional lateralization was altered during this epoch. Rather,
what occurred was a dramatic increase in the dopaminergic mind, which
is typified by its advanced cognition, competitive drive, masculine
style, focus on distant (future) goals and space, and control over
nature and others (“agentic extraversion”), all at the expense of
empathy towards others and maintenance of the emotional self.

The father
of sociobiology, the synthesis of biology and social behavior,
Harvard biologist, E. O. Wilson, has compared humans to other animal
social species to understand how biological factors, primarily sexual
reproductive strategies shape our social organization. Wilson has
said in reference to the social species of ants: “Karl Marx was
right, socialism works; it is just that he had the wrong species.” Ants are one of a few existing eusocial species that live in a
communist-like social organization, because of their biology, due to
their reproductive dependence. The sterile worker ants require the
queen in order to reproduce and maintain their colony. The queen ant
only mates once with a male, who dies soon after fulfilling his part,
and then she builds a nest to fertilize and grow her eggs. The worker
ants are forced to live in a centralized society in which they serve
the reproductive functions monopolized by their queen.

This
suggests that the sexual organization of society determines its
social organization and division of labor, according to its adapted
reproductive strategy, selected in the evolution of sex. In contrast
to ants, which are all female societies (a feminist utopia), in human
societies, the males play a dominant and active role in pair-bonding
with females to create the family structure and raise the children.
Men also have the masculine characteristics, designed to protect and
provide for their wives and children. Humans possess reproductive
independence to give birth to their offspring with no need for a
“queen.” Moreover, humans benefit from a greater level of
Darwinian fitness when seeking their own self-interest, taking care
of their families and cooperating peacefully with other members of
their society for mutual benefit—particularly under the capitalist
system that promotes individual rights.